Color analyzer



Jan. 27, 1925.

C. W. KEUFFEL COLOR ANALYZER Filed Feb.

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Application fled rebmar 15, was. Serial no. 619,168.

To all 'wlw ra it may concern." Be it known that I, CARL W. Knurrnn, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident-- of Weehawken, in the county of Hudson 5 and State of New Jersey, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Color Analyzers; of which the following is a specification.v

My invention and has for .its object to provide a color measuring instrument-of the spectrophoto-.

metric type having all of the various units rigidl mounted upon a common base and accor ingly permanently held in proper ad- 15 justment an alignment, and with the various parts so designed, arranged, combined and constructed that extremely accurate 1 measurements of color may be made, rendering theinztg ment most desirable for labomeasurements may be made throughout the entire spectrum and novel .means whereby the sample is maintained at an ordinary or 1 normal temperature, this latter feature bein of considerable importance not only. 4 w e re the color of an inflammable, easily charred or readily destroyed body is measuredbut also due to the slight changes in color which I have fOllIld take place in certain 1;; of samples when they are heated. A further object is to provide convenient means whereby the accuracy and precision of the photometric and spectrometric scales may be readily checked, and, further, to accomplish all of the aforementioned ends in a sim 1e and expeditious manner and accordingdylnplace the analyzing, measurin g of the color of a solid, liqui or gas upon a practical basis and thus provide means for exact color ciflcationor color control, .and with the ongoing and and reco relates to a color analyzer gations, and at the same timesame-being adjustably mounted and other objectsv in-view, my invention consists in the improved color analyzer illustrated in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter described and claimed, and in. such variations and modifications thereof as will be obvious to thoseskilled in the art to which my invention relates, it bein under-' stood that changes may be made w1thin the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit thereof.

, The-preferred embodiment of my invention is disclosed in the accompanying draw in wherein:

igure 1' is a viewin side elevation and partially in section of the color analyzer embodying the characteristic features of my invention;

Figure 2 lsa top plan view, thereof;

Figure 3 is a diagrammatic view of the divided field for the photometric comparison. I,- v I 1 Referring specifically 1 to the several views, wherein similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout,

1 provide a base A upon which is rigidly and. permanently mounted a spectrometer B, a rotating disc photometer C, and adjacent which latteris arranged an"-auxiliary rotating sectored disc and motor E,"th'e t pported by the column F. Arrandged at the remote end of the base A is rigi y secured the sample holding and illuminatin memher or light source G, all of which ements are accordingly held in roper' and fixed relation and thus vprovi ing a compact,

rugged and conveniently operable color analyzer. a

The spectrometer B may be of any standard type, although preferably composed of the entrance tube or collimator 10 and the eye tube 11, both being properly su ortcd by the column 12 and housing 13.

within the housing is-the usual type of constant deviation prism 14, the same being mounted-upon a rotating platform or table 15, the movement thereof being controlled the lead screw 16, which cured to the drum 17, and the latter has a suitable wave-length scale 18 inscribed thereon or carried thereby. A lmurled knob 19 is attached to the drum and thus provides for the convenient manipulation of the prism.

The spectrometer is provided with suitinturnisseslits and e e slits, and also includes the vided with the spring presse able", and preferably adjustable, entrance to the rear wall of the housing; and is procarriagc 64 Qcustomar i-prism20, so that a divided arranged directly in front of the aligned field is o tained,-as illustrated in Figure 3.- openings of the shield plate and 58 of may The photometer C is of the rotating disc the housing and is adapted to receive a 7 type, the novel features ofwhich have been solid object and hold it securely in front of made the subject-matter of a separate apthe aligned openings. In Figure 1 this lication. This photometer includes the solid is represented as at 65, and is comurled adjusting sleeve 25, the same carryposed of a block of magnesium carbonate ing'a suitable scale 26 wherebythe quantity which is normally used as a standard for of liglgt intercepted by the rotating discs 1 0% eflec i ne up r'p i n 0f the regulated and measured. bracket 63 is provided wit a second springeferring again to Figures 1 and 2, the pressed plunger 66 which is adapted to hold auxiliary disc 46 is directly connected to the various types of samples in front of the motor 48, which latter is adjustably mounted all ed openings 61-57 of the shield plate 'upon the stand F. The stand also provides an hous ng; the stereopticon lamps 55 being with transparent end pieces.

a support for the adjustable holder 49 for so arranged as to highly illuminate the liquid or for transparent substances, the adsample and standard. cause a powerful justable holder being preferably composed 'beam of light to be reflected from the same of the frame 50 and the two tubes or trou hs and to pass out through suitable superposed 51, which tubes or troughs are also provi ed openings 67 and 68 formed in the front wall of the housing. The cover of the housing The light source G is'composed of an apis provided with a limited number of air inproximately spherical housing 52,53, 54, the. let openings 69, sothat as the air is withinner surface of which is coated with magdrawn through the suction tube 62 the vennesium oxide or similar substance, so that tllatlon of the entire interior of the housing bright and uniformly diffused illumination Wlll take place, air being also allowed to is obtained. Two adjustable stereopticon enter through the limited openings 67 lamps 55 are so arranged as to highly iland 68. luminate the entire interior of the housing. ,My improved color analyzer as thus an It is highly important that the sample and. ran ed. and constructed may'beeasily and standard be' illuminated by uniform and] rea ily operated by an inexperienced obdiffused light and this is'obtained by the server, may be used to measure the color of approximately spherical formation of the inflammable or easily charred substances ousin and covers. Also I provide shields and provides for the most accurate and pre- S pro erably formed by an opaque paint cise color measurements, and, further, alplaced directly upon the glass wallsof the lows this precision to be carried out for amps and so arranged as to prevent. the" those colors of the spectrum which are of direct rays from the incandescent filament relatively low intensity. Also particular from reaching the sample and standard. attention is called to the novel method of The rear wall of the housing is inwardly measuring colors by the powerful illuminaofi'set, as at 56, and is provided with the two tion. of the same and at the same time prespaced openings 57 and 58. A shield plate venting change of color due to change of 59 is provided with openings 60 adapted to temperature. Further, all of the units bealign and register with the openings 57 and ing rigidly secured to a common base, re- 58 of the housing and is securedto the rear serves the proper alignment thereof an alwall of the housing in such manner as to lows the color analyzer to be used without form a space 61 between the shield and ofiany initial setting up or adjustment. Furset wall 56. The shield 59 stops short ofthe ther, the color of a transparent object or upper end of the offset ortion 56 of theliquidmay be readily measured by placing housing, so that air may e drawn through the same within the transparent tubes or a suction pipe 62 and will cause a current troughs 51 and inserting two magnesium of air to enter between the oflset wall 56 carbonate blocks within the sample and and shield 59' and thus flow downwardly standard holding bracket.

through. the space 61 and into the housing Havm thus described In invention, L

, through the openings 57 and 58. This circlaim an desire to secure by ters Patent culation of relatively cool air past the 1. The method of testing or measuring sam lo and standard maintains the same at the colors of a colored sample consisting in p a re atively cool'or normal temperature and powerfully illuminating the same, provid- Iam thus ableto use a most owerful ilmg a circulation of air past said 3am lo luminating source. Further, t is continu--, and thereby preventing change of color no one cooling of the standard and sample al- 'to change of temperature dunn the powerlows the color of inflammable or easily ful illumination of the same an then meascharredbodies to be measured. urin or testing the colored light proceed- A. sample holding bracket 63 .is secured ing om said sample.

2. An instrument for measuring or testing colors of a colored sample comprising a support for said colored sample, means for diffusely and powerfully illuminating the 'same, means forcausing a current of air to flowpast said sample and prevent change of color due to change of temperature, andme'ans for indentifying'and measuring the colored lights proceeding from said sample. 3. A color analyzer comprising a spectrometer, a photometer associated therewith, means for supporting a sample and a comparison standard in proper position with relation thereto, a source of illumination, an opaque screen between said source of illumination and said sample-and standard, means for illuminating said sample and standard by difi'used light and allowing rays of light to pass directly from said standard and sample to said spectrometer and photometer.

4. A color'analyzer comprising a spectrometer, a photometer associated therewith, means for supporting a sample and a comparison standard in proper position with relation to said s ectrometer and said photometer, means or diffusely, equally and powerfully illuminating said sample and standard, and means for causing a current of air to flow across said sample and there by prevent change of color due to change of temperature.

5. A color analyzer comprising a base, a light source mounted thereon, a holder for a sample and a standard associated with said light source, means mounted upon said base for photometrically and spectrometrically comparing the colored light from said standard and sample, and means for causing an inrush of air into said light source, past said sample, and thereby prevent change of color due to change of temperature.

6. An apparatus of the class described comprising a housin a source of illumination therein, a hol er adapted to support a sample and standard adjacent the rear wall, and means for causing a current of air to flow past said standard and sample between the same and the said rear wall and thence into the said housing, said housing provided'with portions in the front wall thereof adapted to transmit the direct rays of light from said sample and standard, and means for measuring and comparing the direct rays of light from said housing.

7. A color analyzer comprising in part an approximately spherical housing, a holder associated with said housing and adapted to hold a sample and a comparison standard, a source of illumination located within said housing, and a screen located between said holder and said source of illumination and adapted to shield the standard and sample from the direct rays of said illuminatlon, and means for causing a circulation of air past said standard and sample and into and through said housing for the cooling thereof.

Signed at Hoboken in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey this 9th day of February A. D. 1923.

. CARL W. KEUFFEL.

Witnesses:

A. F. Nznn, B; B. VAN S10. 

